Defender of the Faiths
The first great chess grandmaster did not play in London, Paris or Moscow, but in the dazzling court of the Abbasid Caliphs.
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Draughts, also known as Checkers
Before computers conquered chess, one extraordinary mathematician proved that human intuition could still outthink silicon.
Go and the Atomic Bomb
As Hiroshima vanished in the first atomic explosion of war, two Go masters calmly reset their scattered stones and continued their game.